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Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is strengthened
by section of this Ordinance in the following ways :-
(a) The possession of the keys of any box, drawer
or other receptacle containing a drug to which
the Ordinance applies is made presumptive
evidence of possession of the drug with guilty
knowledge.
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(b) The possession of a baggage receipt or of any
thing intended to serve the purpose of a baggage
receipt is similarly made presumptive evidence
of possession with guilty knowledge.
(c) A new sub-section (3) provides that the
presumptions of section cannot be rebutted by
proof that the accused never had physical
possession of the drug in question.
Section 10 of the principal Ordinance provides that
a certificate sugned by the Superintendent as to the
character, quantity or market value of any drug to which the
Ordinance applies shall be conclusive evidence as to such
character, quantity, or market value. It is difficult to
see how under this section any particular certificate could
be connected with the particular drugs which it was meant to
cover, except of course by calling the Superintendent as a
witness, and one object of the section was to avoid the
necessity of calling him. Section 10 of this Ordinance
endeavours to meet this difficulty by means of a statutory
form of a certificate which can be connected, by means of the
officer who takes the drugs to the Superintendent, with the
drugs actually seized, and which can be connected, by means of
the officer who receives the drugs from the Superintendent,
with the drugs produced in Court. The new section 10
inserted in the principal Ordinance by section 10 of this
Ordinance also provides that any such certificate purporting
to be signed by the Superintendent shall until the contrary